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Google Forms is a free online form builder app that offers all the features you need to create a simple poll or dynamic survey: you can add different question types, use form logic, customize the form to match your branding, and thanks to its deep integration with Google Sheets, you can gather data and mine it for insights without leaving Google Workspace.

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We have a lot of ground to cover, so let's dive right in. Here's everything you need to know to create and share Google Form surveys.

How to create a Google Form

The simplest way to create a Google Form is directly from the Google Forms web app.

You can also create a new Google Form directly from Google Sheets. This is the quickest way to automatically sync your form data with a new or existing spreadsheet.

1. Open the spreadsheet you want to sync with your form.

2. Click Tools, and then select Create a new form.

A blank form will automatically appear in the Google Forms editor. By default, the form title will be the same as your spreadsheet. Or, in the case of creating a new form directly from Google Forms, it'll appear as Untitled form. You can also enter a form description to help respondents understand the purpose of your survey.

Using the Google Forms editor is straightforward. Click a form field to add and edit a question. To add more questions, click the Add question icon, which looks like a plus sign (+), in the floating toolbar next to your question box. And to modify the question type, click the dropdown next to the question field.

Google Forms offers eleven different question types. Here's what each one does:

Short answer: This field is perfect for asking for small bits of text like names, email addresses, and values. You get one line of text to answer the question-though your users could actually enter as much text as they want.

Paragraph: This field is for long-form text. Use it when you want detailed feedback or longer notes in the answer.

Multiple choice: This is the default field for new questions in a Google Form. It lets you list different options and have users select only one. You can then have the form jump to another section based on the answer or have the answer options shuffled to prevent bias.

Checkboxes: This field lets you list different options and have users select as many as they want. It also includes data validation to require users to select a specific number of options. It doesn't include section jumps, however.

Dropdown: This is similar to the multiple choice question type with the same section jump and shuffle options. The only difference is that the answers are presented in a dropdown menu. This is useful for keeping your form compact when there are many answer options.

File upload: This isn't a question type per se, but it lets your respondents upload files that will automatically save in your Drive. If you use this, be sure to share your form only with people you trust.

Linear scale: This field lets respondents select a number in a range, so you can set a numerical scale starting at 0 or 1 and ending anywhere from 2 to 10. You can also add labels for the lowest and highest options. And yes, emoji work for labels, too.

Checkbox grid: This is set up similarly to the multiple choice grid, but respondents can select multiple answer options (columns) for each row in a table. It's a good option to let respondents make comparisons or select, say, their levels of satisfaction with a product. You can limit users to choosing just one answer per row, and you can also shuffle the row order to eliminate bias.

Date: This field is useful if you want to ask for a specific date, perhaps to schedule an event or log an activity. Note: the date format will appear in the default format for your location. For example, if your account's preferred language is set to US English, dates will be formatted as MM/DD/YYYY; UK English accounts, on the other hand, will show dates as DD/MM/YYYY. Your users will see the date options in your location's date format unless they're logged in to their Google Account.

Time: This field lets respondents enter time in hours and minutes.

All question types allow you to insert an image, but if you want to add only an image or video with no question, you can do that, too. Click the Add image or Add video icon in the floating toolbar, and choose the image or video you want to insert.

Note: Google Forms supports only YouTube videos, which you can add through search or with a link.

Whether you've added images or videos, your entry will have the standard title and description fields, along with options to resize and show the video or image center-, left-, or right-aligned.

Accidentally remove a form element or add one too many? Press command + Z or Ctrl + Z to undo, just as you would in a document.

How to add sections and logic in Google Forms

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Simple forms need only a few fields, but longer surveys can quickly get overwhelming with dozens of questions listed on one page. That's where sections come in handy: they let you break your form up into chunks so that respondents answer only one set of questions at a time.

Click the Add section icon, which looks like an equal sign (=), from the floating toolbar.

This will add a new section below the current question. Each section includes its own title and description, along with an Expand/ Collapse section option to keep your form editor manageable.

Let's say you want to ask a respondent follow-up questions based on their answer. This is where form logic comes in.

1. Create a multiple-choice or dropdown question as you normally would. Note: Form logic doesn't work with other question types.

2. Click the More options icon, which looks like an ellipsis ( ⁝), in the question box, and then click Go to section based on answer.

3. Modify the next-step options beside each answer. In the example below, anyone who answers that they're attending the event in person will be brought to the next question; anyone who is attending virtually or not at all will be directed to the end of the survey.

Note: Be sure to not select your current section's name, or you'll end up making a loop where respondents can never get to the end of your form.

At any point, you can click the Preview icon, which looks like an eye, above your form to make sure your survey is flowing the way you want.

How to create a quiz on Google Forms

Another way to make an interactive form is by turning it into a quiz. The quickest way to create a new quiz in Google Forms is by going to g.co/createaquiz. If you want to turn an existing form into a quiz, click Settings, and then click the toggle next to Make this a quiz.

From the Settings menu, choose whether to show the results immediately after the form is submitted or after you review the answers. If you choose the latter, your form will prompt respondents to first sign in with their Google account.

You can then choose to show missed and correct answers, as well as a value for each option. With these options enabled, you'll need to update your answer key.

Choose the correct answer(s), and enter the value of the question.

Note: You can use any question type-such as Multiple choice, Short answer, and even Date -in a Google Forms quiz.

How to change the design of a Google Form

When you create a new form, the default design-if you can call it that-is a purple color theme. But it's easy to change the design and include a header image to add a little personality or to match your company's branding.

1. Click the Customize Theme icon, which looks like a paint palette.

2. In the Theme panel that appears, you can change the form's text style, header image, and color theme.

How to create a Google Forms template

Unlike in Google Docs, there's no straightforward way to create and share Google Forms templates. But there's a simple workaround.

If someone else wants to use your template, add them as a collaborator and then share a link to your form.

How to share and collaborate on Google Forms

Google Forms sharing settings

Once your form is finished, be sure to check the form settings before sharing it with the world. Here are some fields you may want to pay extra attention to.

Responses

These settings let you manage how responses are collected and shared. You can limit users to submitting only one form, allow them to edit their responses, or receive a copy of their responses. You can also choose to collect email addresses and share the form either with only your organization or publicly with anyone who has the link. And you have the option to collect respondents' usernames (their Google Workspace email addresses), which is helpful if you need to follow up with someone.

Presentation

These settings let you manage how the form is presented and add a confirmation page to your form. This works the same as the form description field, but it's really bare-bones-you can't format the text or add hyperlinks. You can also choose whether to show a progress bar, shuffle your question order, or show links to submit another response.

Language

Language isn't a setting you can adjust directly from Google Forms, but it's worth noting that Google will display the form's interface in the default language for your recipients' location. If your readers are in, say, Japan and your form questions are in English, user interface (UI) text like Required and Submit will appear in Japanese while your questions appear in English. If that's an issue, add a note to the beginning of your form to remind people to first update their preferred language.

How to collaborate on Google Forms

If you want to get feedback from your team on your form, here's how to collaborate on Google Forms.

1. Click the More icon ( ⋮) above your form.

2. Enter individual collaborators' email addresses or give general access to anyone in your organization or anyone with the form link.

How to share Google Forms

Once you're ready to share your form, click Send above your form.

From here, you have three ways to share the form.

Email. This option lets you send an email to recipients within or outside your organization with an individual invitation to complete the form. Click Include form in email and your recipients will be able to fill out the form directly from their inbox. In my experience, though, this feature doesn't always work. For example, I couldn't complete the form in the Gmail mobile app. It also didn't work when I sent respondents a form I created using my Google Workspace account, but it did when I made one using my personal Google account.

How to share a pre-filled Google Form

Want to get feedback with a form partly filled in? Perhaps a contact clicks a button on your site that says they dislike one product, so you want the survey form to automatically reflect that. Or maybe you have a form that needs to be filled out with similar info each week, and you don't want to re-type it.

1. Click the More icon ( ⋮) above your form.

2. Complete the sections of the form that you want to have pre-filled.

3. A link to the form automatically copies to your clipboard. Paste and share the link as you normally would.

The only downside is that Google Forms doesn't store pre-filled links for you to reference and share at a later date. You'll have to repeat the process every time you want to share the pre-filled form.

How to share a paper or PDF Google Form

Need to gather responses offline? Google Forms can help with that, too.

1. Click the More icon ( ⋮) above your form.

2. Google Forms will make a ballot-style copy of your form that you can print or save as a PDF.

Grids and multiple-choice options show pill buttons to fill in, while text, date, and time fields include blank lines for answers.

Once respondents have filled out your paper forms, enter their answers into your Google Sheets spreadsheet to save them along with your other form entries.

How to access Google Forms responses (and automatically save responses in a spreadsheet)

Once you've created and shared the form, you don't need to do anything extra to store respondents' answers in Google Forms.

Click Responses to view individual responses, summary lists and graphs of responses, and an option to send an email reminder to anyone who still needs to complete the form.

The graphs and lists are great for a quick overview of responses, but if you want a more detailed breakdown in a Google Sheets spreadsheet, click View in Sheets.

Want to create a new spreadsheet or select an existing spreadsheet to store your answers in instead? Click the More icon ( ⋮) next to the summary of total responses, and then click Select destination for responses.

Note: You can store results from multiple forms in one spreadsheet, but each form's responses will save to separate sheets.

One great thing about saving Google Forms entries to a Google Sheets spreadsheet: it's fast. Change your form field names, and they're automatically updated in your spreadsheet. Get a new entry, and it'll show up in the spreadsheet as soon as your recipient clicks Submit.

Note: You can change form questions and answer options at any time, but if you do, it won't change entries that have already been added to your spreadsheet.

Accidentally deleted something from your spreadsheet? Google Forms always keeps a full copy of your form data. The easiest thing to do is unlink and relink your form and spreadsheet. Click the More icon ( ⋮) next to the summary of total responses, and then click Unlink form.

Then reconnect the form to your spreadsheet, and Google Forms will add all the form data back to a new sheet.

With your form data in the spreadsheet, you can use Google Sheets' formulas to calculate values or make custom graphs to visualize your data. Add conditional formatting to the spreadsheet, and you'll be able to see patterns in your form responses at a glance.

Learn more about using Google Sheets

How to use Google Forms add-ons

Google Forms is great on its own, but odds are it's still missing some features you want. There's an entire library of add-ons specifically for Google Forms that lets you do things like customize form notifications and take signatures in a form.

To use an add-on, click the Add-ons icon, which looks like a puzzle piece, above your form, and select the tool you want to use. It'll then run in the background automatically.

There's no straightforward way to remove add-ons directly from Google Forms. The easiest way to manage your apps is by going to Google Workspace Marketplace and uninstalling the apps you no longer want.

Automate Google Forms

Google Forms offers a robust feature set to create and share dynamic surveys. But once you've received a form submission, actually doing anything with that data requires some manual work-whether that's copying it over to a to-do list or messaging your team. With Zapier, you can eliminate that manual work. Connect Google Forms to your other apps, so you can automatically do things like:

Learn more about how to automate Google Forms, or get started with one of these workflows.

To get started with a Zap template-what we call our pre-made workflows-just click on the button. It only takes a few minutes to set up. You can read more about setting up Zaps here.
Related reading: This article was originally published in July 2016 by Matthew Guay with contributions from Elena Alston. The most recent update was in January 2024.

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Companies are starting to flock to Snapchat.

McDonald's and Taco Bell are using it to get Snapchatters interested in their products.

The NBA and MLS are giving behind-the-scenes footage from their sports worlds.

CNN is reporting news content, and The Food Network is providing an extension to its programming.

They're providing content that's interesting.

They're surprising their audience.

And they're having some fun along the way.

If companies can do it, teachers and schools can, too ... and we can learn some lessons about how to engage students by watching how they engage their customers.

I've just recently jumped into the Snapchat world, and I've learned a lot. In this post ( Snapchat 101 for teachers - What you need to know), we saw that ...

It's focused on pictures and videos and lets you add lots of fun extras to them

When they're shared, pictures and videos on Snapchat "disappear" after 10 seconds or less (although they can be replayed once and can be captured with a screenshot)

A study showed that more users age 12-24 use Snapchat than any other social media

Snapchat can be used for one-way communication (i.e. a classroom/school account can broadcast content but not receive or see content from others)

Snapchat Terms of Service states that users must be at least 13 years old

With all the eyeballs of students of many different ages (with parents jumping in all the time), Snapchat can be a place to have a presence that will be noticed.

Classrooms, schools and districts can leverage Snapchat to connect with students and families.

Think about this first

Before launching into a new Snapchat account, there are several things to consider, including:

Will you add students, parents or others in the school community back as friends?

If so, you'll have access to their content and will have two-way communication with them. (This could give districts and school leaders a new channel to connect with families and students.)

If not, you'll be broadcasting content one-way - to them. (This separates schools and classrooms from students' personal Snapchat posts - and distances them from potential pitfalls of inappropriate use.)

What are your goals for using Snapchat? What kinds of pictures and videos do you intend to use?

What's your tone going to be? If you're a classroom connecting with students, too serious a tone will likely chase students off. Remember, you can't make them follow you on Snapchat (and you probably shouldn't try), and when it feels "too much like school" they'll likely bail out.

How will you draw a clear line between your personal and professional lives? If you have a personal Snapchat account, you might want to create a separate one for your classroom or school (and have a separate set of rules for who you'll follow, how you communicate and what kind of posts you share).

The best way to share for one-way communication

Snapchat's "stories" feature lets you add new pictures and videos to your story. Then your followers can view the story any time for 24 hours. The "stories" feature is designed to let your followers catch up on what you've been doing for the last day all at once.

You must have a two-way following relationship to send pictures and videos to another user. Therefore, the "stories" feature may be the best place for teachers (especially middle school and high school) and conservative schools and districts to share content with their students. The drawback: users must go to and click on your story to view it. You can't send snaps directly to someone you're not friends with. (Note: I'm still learning about Snapchat, too, so if you think this is incorrect, please comment below and we'll get it straightened out!)

Schools and districts with more liberal social media policies may choose to add students, parents and community members as friends. College/university professors may want to follow students, too, because their professor/student relationship is different than those of K-12 teacher-student. If so, that opens up new channels of communication - including sending "snaps" directly to everyone all at once.

Ideas for using Snapchat in education

Here are 15 ways that classrooms, schools and districts and use Snapchat to connect with students, parents and the school community:

1. Vocabulary - Brain research tells us that spacing out learning (as opposed to cramming all at once) is more beneficial for long-term memory. Add to a story snaps of funny, interesting or breathtaking pictures with vocabulary words as the text caption. (Take your own pictures or take a picture of a picture in a book or on your computer.)

2. Real-world examples - Michael Britt, an adjunct psychology professor at Marist College, finds interesting examples of his psychology content. He sends it to his psychology students in video or pictures on Snapchat. ( via NPR) When you see a perfect example of your content in real life, take a picture or video of it and add it to your story.

3. Have some fun with drawing - Drawing on a picture before sending it on Snapchat may be one of my favorite features. Have fun with it! Draw costumes on students. Add something to the picture that isn't already there! Letting loose a little and showing students your personality can improve the student/teacher relationship. (Note: Be sure to follow any school/district social media policies and do so in good taste.)

4. Mark up images - If you follow students back, they can send you pictures of your content marked up with drawing or text. Kari, a Spanish teacher, has students add text captions in Spanish to pictures for class participation credit. "Many have a lot of fun with it and others don't use it at all," she wrote in a comment on my blog. "I see it as real world application just like any other tech, most kids will connect but not all."

5. Congratulate - Did a class score well on a test? Did a student win an award or perform well in an academic competition? Add a congratulatory snap to your Snapchat story!

6. Reminders - Don't let students forget that upcoming quiz or homework assignment with a reminder snap. (Remember, don't get too heavy with these or other "academic" posts ... if it feels too much like school, students may abandon your Snapchat account!)

7. Virtual study session - Add your top 10 most important things to remember for a quiz or test as snaps in your Snapchat story. Students can watch your story and it becomes an instant study session.

8. Movies - Tell a story 10 seconds at a time. Add short video clips to a story with each video as a scene in the "movie". If students follow you, this could be a great, fun way for students to engage in content. They could craft their own Snapchat movies incorporating what they learn in your class. Teachers can create fun content that students will want to watch. Schools and school districts can do the same to tell about a sporting event or other community event.

9. Amusing/humorous uses of content - Ever seen a funny science joke on Facebook? A clever math meme? Take a picture of it and add it to your Snapchat story to show students that there's fun to be had in your subject.

10. Field trips - Tell the story of your adventure by adding pictures and videos of field trips to your Snapchat story. If parents follow your Snapchat account, they'll have a blast seeing what happened first-hand. If students follow you, they'll love reliving the trip!

11. Be a reporter - Schools and districts can bring news the entire school community through Snapchat. Report on a basketball game by showing quick video clips with score updates. Go backstage at the school play for exclusive access!

12. Do a student take-over - Let students take over the school/district Snapchat account! After some clear expectations and ground rules, students can be very creative and give a fresh perspective to student life. Second grade teacher Kayla Delzer does this all the time with her second-grade students on Twitter and Instagram. What better way to teach digital citizenship than to give students some guided on-the-job training?

13. Follow content-related Snapchat accounts - With more and more corporations and organizations joining Snapchat, they're also trying to engage their followers with interesting content. (And if they're on Snapchat, they're targeting the demographic that lives there - the 12-24 year olds ... yep, students!) Connect students with interesting Snapchat accounts in your content area and they'll be learning 24/7 through social media. Example: GE has a Snapchat account (@generalelectric) and shares snaps about science, space travel and "all things geeky". They even introduced followers to astronaut Buzz Aldrin through Snapchat!

14. Speech bubbles - Once you've taken a picture in Snapchat, use the drawing feature to add a speech bubble (draw an outline of it and fill it in with white). Add a funny, interesting or thought-provoking quote next to someone (or something's) picture. If students follow you, they can send these snaps to you to engage in your content.

15. Ask a question - Want to bring up an interesting question in class? Stoke the fire by asking it on Snapchat before class. It'll give students time to think about it beforehand. If students follow you back, they can reply with a snap of their own!

Remember, we can learn from the companies that are utilizing this social media platform. To engage our students on Snapchat, provide interesting content, catch them by surprise and have some fun along the way.

[reminder]How could you use these ideas in your own class, school or district? How have you used Snapchat in education? What are other ideas you have?[/reminder]
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